Rithy Panh

Rithy Panh (1964) fled his native Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge and settled in Paris in the 1980s, where he graduated from the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques. In his films he processes his own experiences with the Pol Pot regime. For his documentary The Missing Picture (2013), he was nominated for an Oscar. The Ji.hlava IDFF presented his films Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (2007) and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2011)